Indian Engineers of the Bengal Sappers and Miners are seen at work clearing Japanese aerial bombs used as mines on the road to Rangoon, capital of Burma.

Sherman medium tanks of 255th Indian Tank Brigade drive along a road in rainy conditions. Shot looking at the reflections of troops walking along the wet road surface. Troops climbing a path on a hillside. A number of chutes have been dug into the hillside to enable Japanese defenders to roll aircraft bombs or other explosives down them. Close-ups of the chutes and of the bombs waiting to be pushed down them. Engineers of the Bengal Sappers and Miners at work removing aircraft bombs from the Rangoon road. Various views of bombs being removed including a close-up of a machete being used to dig out a bomb. Stuart light tanks drive along the road, now made safe, followed by Shermans.

Notes

Dopesheet is dated 3 April, but this must be a typing error. The location given is 39 Milestone (on the Rangoon road), and 17th Division did not reach this point until the first week of May.

The dopesheet gives the engineer unit as 7th Field Company, Indian Engineers. However, no such company was attached to 17th Division or IV Corps, so possibly this a mistyping of 70th Field Company.